Senior Domain Expert, Total Rewards

Syndio•Home, WV

12d•CA$145,000 - CA$165,000•Remote

About The Position

Syndio is seeking a Senior Domain Expert (Total Rewards) to join the Applied Pay Intelligence team. This role is for a hands-on compensation practitioner who will leverage their expertise in total rewards strategy and pay equity best practices to advise customers, employees, and external audiences on advanced pay equity topics. The position involves owning an area of Syndio's compensation content and product, creating scalable resources, collaborating with the Product team to integrate compensation practices into their platform, and participating in critical customer discussions. The role also includes translating analytics into product requirements and supporting product and development teams. This is a senior individual contributor role focused on ensuring the platform's compensation intelligence keeps compounding.

Requirements

5+ years of hands-on total rewards, compensation, or organizational design work, ideally with meaningful time in job architecture, market data, pay range design, or org design projects at enterprise scale.
Deep facility with compensation practice: leveling frameworks, benchmarking methodology, salary structure design, offer construction, geographic differentials, incentive design.
Experience translating compensation practice into something a broader team can execute (e.g., a playbook, a tool, a product, a set of standards).
Demonstrated ability to hold a credible conversation with a CHRO, a comp committee, or an HRBP leadership team about design tradeoffs.
Ability to write for CHRO, comp committee, or HRBP leadership audiences.
Strong judgment on the difference between presenting design options and prescribing outcomes, and comfort holding that line.
Track record of building content, documentation, or enablement materials that reduce reliance on your calendar over time.
Comfort thinking about how compensation expertise translates into AI-mediated product capability, particularly for offer recommendation and structure design in Decisions.

Nice To Haves

Experience in HR tech, compensation SaaS, or a related enterprise domain is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

Provide expert advice on advanced pay equity topics to customers, fellow employees, and external audiences.
Own an area of Syndio's compensation content and product surface (e.g., job architecture, market data, pay ranges, offer construction, geographic differentials).
Build 1:many resources (e.g., customer briefings, design guides, communication templates) to scale expertise.
Partner directly with Product to embed compensation practice into the Decisions and Essentials platforms.
Participate in customer conversations where design choices need to be validated.
Translate custom analytics into product requirements and support product and development teams.
Partner with data science and development teams to ensure the product advances customer outcomes.
Lead a squad's roadmap and prioritize work on the Applied Expertise team.
Apply total rewards expertise in complex customer situations, including architecture redesigns, market data conflicts, range strategy, offer logic, and geographic differentials.
Anchor customer QBRs, offer strategy conversations, and architecture reviews.
Surface current framework gaps and customer patterns to colleagues and Product.